San Diego California real estate blog

Sales of existing homes rose 5.5 percent, from a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.91 million units in August to 5.18 million in September, and have risen 1.4 percent on a year-over-year basis marking the first annual increase since late-2005. *To view the full post, please visit the San D...

"I made a mistake," Greenspan said, "in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms." "The Federal Reserve had as good an economic organization as exi...

  California home foreclosures - In a report issued today by California-based research group RealtyTrac it was reported that California home foreclosure filings fell 32 percent on a monthly basis but were up 36 percent from a year ago. California remained the third hardest-hit state in the collap...

If your real estate website has an IDX link, do you provide the full property address to Web surfers? If so, you may be acting more like a librarian than a realtor! Do you really believe Web surfers, the potential clients, who have had in many cases no personal, or even email, contact with you, a...

One should keep in mind that the larger the market (city/town) and the more popular the keyword (XXXXX real estate, XXXXX real estate broker, XXXXX real estate agent, XXXXX real estate blog) the harder it will be to get a top ten standing. Now, for San Diego, I could easly work to get Bob Schwart...

In the table below, www.brokerforyou.com looked at selected San Diego neighborhoods that had 10 or more closed sales in August 2008 & August 2007.     *To view the full post, please visit the San Diego real estate blog                      

An estimate by real-estate Web site Zillow.com shows that among people who bought within the past five years, about 29% are under water on their mortgages. From a Moody's Economy.com report it shows that 12 million households, or 16%, owe more than **To read the full post, please visit the San Di...

Wall street voices its opinion of the Government bailout. First it was the Government cash taxpayer rebate. Then we had a Government housing bailout effective October 1, 2008. Then, in a third step, the Government bailout program known as the "rescue bill," signed into law on October 5, 2008. Dur...

This morning on The Today Show, Jim Cramer said if you own stocks and will need cash from those investments within the next five years, you should sell those investments this week! Why say this on national TV? Obviously, he expects stocks to fall an additional 20% from today's level. **To view th...

San Diego real estate is very scarce. Most of San Diego open space is owned by the military/Government/parks. So, San Diego real estate can never really go down much in value. If you don't buy a home in San Diego now, the rising prices will never let you purchase as good a value. Act now! *To vie...